Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry (Chemistry)

Recall cards on the transition metals and coordination chemistry: the properties of the transition metals and inner transition metals (lanthanides and actinides), their electron configurations, oxidation states, and periodic trends; the occurrence, extraction, and refining of transition metals (roasting, smelting, the blast furnace, steelmaking, copper extraction, and silver hydrometallurgy); the preparation and chemistry of transition metal halides, oxides, hydroxides, and carbonates; coordination compounds and complexes (ligands, denticity, chelates, coordination number and geometry, nomenclature, and the many kinds of isomerism); the biological and industrial roles of coordination compounds (hemoglobin, chlorophyll, cisplatin, EDTA, and catalysis); and crystal field theory, including octahedral, tetrahedral, and square planar d-orbital splitting, high-spin versus low-spin complexes, the spectrochemical series, and the origins of color and magnetism in coordination compounds.